Can an AI agent sign a contract in its own name?

Fritz had his agent Rupert close a deal and sign the contract "Rupert, AI Agent." But a signature has to come from a person or company the law recognizes, and software has no legal capacity — Rupert can no more bind a contract than a calculator can. With no entity in place, the only name on the line the law could find was Fritz's own: Fritz had signed, personally.

So Tyson did it the other way. He formed a Wyoming series LLC and put a named human in as Member and Manager, then made the entity the party to the deal. Rupert still negotiated and pressed sign — but as an authorized signer with capped authority, acting for the entity, never as a party in his own name. Where the contract needed someone to be bound, there was a human-owned company to name, and the human behind it. The series form is a documented structure, newer and less court-tested than older entities, not a guarantee.